He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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